First came lockdown, and our ties were left hanging ... Because what’s the point in tying a tie if it fades into the be-shirted background? Matching the colour of your tie with your suit is a little ...

Two young fellows on the left look on enviously. From “Mrs Perkins’s Ball” by M.A. Titmarsh, a pseudonym of William Makepeace Thackeray. Published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1847. cartoon of a men ...